Dr. Steve Lawrence was among the group at NEC Research which was responsible for the creation of the Search Engine/Digital Library CiteSeer. He is currently an employee at Google. The success of the Google search engine was mainly due to its powerful PageRank algorithm and its simple, easy-to-use interface. ... DIGITAL LIBRARY A library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format (as opposed to print or microform), accessible by means of computers. ... CiteSeer, in the past known as ResearchIndex, is a public specialty search engine and digital library that was created by researchers Dr. Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker and Dr. Lee Giles while they were at the NEC Research Institute (now NEC Labs), Princeton, NJ, USA. CiteSeer crawls for and harvests academic... Google, Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG), is a U.S. public corporation, initially established as a privately-held corporation in 1998, that designed and manages the Internet Google search engine. ...

External links

• Dr. Steve Lawrence's author page in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP)
• The Internet Archive's copy of Dr. Steve Lawrence's old NEC Research homepage